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"The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?"
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"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."
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"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."
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"Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly."
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"It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box."
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"I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it."
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"Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make."
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"You're certain to get a decision in a trial."
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"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me."
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"New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage."
Woman

"There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too."
Romantic

"In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat."
Family

"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female."
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"If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books."
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"Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us."
People

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
People

"People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it."
Wisdom

"I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person."
Being
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